Comment on SPIN METER: Candidates trade misquoting charges

President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney can speak with authority when they complain about their words being taken out of context. They've not only been victims of the tactic, they've also used it to great effect themselves.

South Korea’s parliament voted on Friday to impeach President Park Geun-hye over an influence-peddling scandal. The Constitutional Court must decide whether to uphold the motion, a process that could take up to 180 days. Under the constitution, Park’s duties will be assumed by Prime Mini

By Johanna Schuster-Craig, Assistant Professor of German and Global Studies, Michigan State University. After the election of Donald Trump, commentators have argued that German Chancellor Angela Merkel may become the leader of the free world, a role typically played by the president of the United St

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● Demographics: Pew's landmark study from a year ago that looked at the changing composition of the middle class over the decades has become an interesting lens through which we can look at the 2016 presidential election. Pew's definition of middle class was "between two-thirds of and twice the national median size-adjusted household income," and, despite the conventional wisdom that declines in the manufacturing sector were wreaking havoc in one-time manufacturing-centered communities, the metro areas with the largest percentage of residents still in the middle class leaned heavily toward those mid-sized Rust Belt cities.